My neighbor who passed a few years back was at the end of WWII. He was born in 1928. Not a small man either at 6'2". He never talked about his time in the service except that he was burned over 70% from a steam leak. He also expressed a dislike for the Veterans administration.
The man was quite interesting. He was born in the County when it was mostly farms and a summer getaway for rich from NYC. As a youth he would ride his horse when he went into town. Owned a rental property and a few trotters that paid for his kids college.
He would tell me about being in the National Ski Patrol and spending winters out west having fun with the woman. He was in the Carpenters Union and taught at BOCES, quit to join the Electrical union when he saw the pay difference. When times were tough in the '70's he went south to get work as an electrician in the coal mines.
He was a tough man, but we got along well. I miss him quite a bit.

I couldn't do it. I'd be terrified the entire time.

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Destin has several good videos from his visit. This is one, but check his YT channel for more. I learned a lot by watching them.

My friend's husband was a Navy Lt on a nuke. She said he slept like he was in a coffin.

Not a submariner but I did design work on 688 class retrofits for a few years at Newport News shipyard.always fun to get aboard and see what it’s like. Definitely cramped.
Went on a walk about in the yard once to the Abe Lincoln Nimitz class carrier. Got to walk underneath it in drydock. What a sight!

Thank you for sharing

No fat bodies in there.

I got the chance to do that when the Enterprise was in dry dock at Hunters Point. Amazing to think that all of that weight was sitting on stacked beams. It was an unscheduled overhaul because a sea mountain kind of jumped in front of us. Had about a 150 odd feet of gashed hull and bilge keel that needed repair. They also took the opportunity to change out a wonky prop shaft.

The USS Batfish is display in Muskogee, OK

THE OFFICIAL USS BATFISH (SS 310) WEB SITE

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We took a tour of it. Very cramped space. Two of the women on the tour had a panic attack from claustrophobia and had to exit ASAP.

It is a cool tour and the museum is very interesting.

Several years back we toured the sub semi-permanently docked in NYC. 2 minutes in i was getting panicked and desperate to get out. Balls of friggin steel to actually go to sea in one of those things. Movies just don't convey the feel of being in one.

Had a similar experience when working at Pearl Harbor...it is an amazing experience.

I took a series of vibration analysis classes with a group of the Boomer boat guys.
Vibration means everything in a Submarine.
Some of the guys from the public utility companies made the Navy guys mad with their cavalier attitudes about the class purpose.
Finally the senior Navy guy told the public utility folks our lives are on the line and so is our Billion Dollar boat protecting your *ss. He said "If a vibe signature is detected by the enemy Sonar in an attack Sub were all dead, please be serious and help these guys out".
I ended up mentoring a couple of the nuclear newbies and gladly helping them out.

PS What's the difference between rain and a shower in a submarine?
Not much, one is a bit more private is what the Sub guys all said with a coy wink.

Boulder City NV Veterans Cemetery is where the all go to rest with their brethren submariners.

I also chased them around in the late 80's.

Then in 2011 or thereabouts, my son's soccer coach was the Skipper on the USS Columbus, SSN 762, in Hawaii. The boat is a Los Angeles Class fast attack sub and was getting work done at Pearl and he had us all come on board to get a look see.

Cozy is an understatement. The skipper's tiny quarters are right off the conn and were sort of like an RV. You have to fold one thing or another down to have a table or sleep or sit.

At Patriots point in Mount Pleasant, SC, they have a WWII submarine there, that rests in the mud. The USS Clamagore I think it is . When I first moved here in 2000, I walked the submarine several times, and it was amazing how small it was.

Due to lack of maintenance and sitting in the mud, there are leaks and they no longer allow you to tour the submarine. They should have raised the submarine on the surface like the one you show.

one of my professors was a nuc in the navy before he became a professor.

i always tried to get him drunk enough to tell me what failed on scorpion, but he never would.

The Soviets had it good on the Typhoon class with a pool and sauna. I bet the heat from the sauna came from the reactor and the pool water was used to cool the reactor.

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My Dad, Army, who attended MIT to get two MS 's, one in Nuclear Physics and one in Civil Engineering, was the first inside SL-1 after the meltdown. He had the Duty that day.

He was awarded a Bronze Star for the "exposure": He got radiated like you read about. Probably helped...he lived to be 84.

RIP.

I work with a guy that was stationed at Kings Bay Ga. and assigned to a nuc sub. He said their limiting factor was the amount of food that could store in the sub. They packed food in every nook and cranny in sub when they left port for a tour.

:eek: fuuuuuuuuuu. RIP indeed, Sir! You did your part!

My brother's favorite quip (to this very day) is that "there are two kinds of ships in the Navy - submarines and targets".

He claims that while he was in, submarines never lost when they played "war games".